Improvement in addressing-machines



J. BLUCHER.

Addressing-Machines.

' Patented Aug. 18,1874;

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOHN BLOCHER, OF FRANKLIN GROVE, ILLINOIS.

IMPROVEMENT IN ADDRESSING-MACHINES'.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 154,212, dated August 18, 187.4; application filed June 2s, 1873.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOHN BLooHER, of Franklin Grove, in the county of Lee and State of Illinois, have invented a new and Improved Addressing-Machine 5 and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings forming a part of this specification, in which- V Y Figure 1 is a side elevation ofthe rocking galley of my addressing apparatus, partly broken away. Fig. 2 is a perspective view of the apparatus. Fig. V3 a transverse section of the galley.

The invention will first be fully described, and then pointed out in the claim.

M represents the rocking galley, N N the handles, and O the mailing-board. The galleys hold fifty addresses each. The addresses are set up in lines of type, Q, and are separated from each other by beveled slugs, the ends of which and the quadrated ends of the lines of type fit under overlapping flanges P P, so that it is impossible for them to drop out. The ink-cushion consists of a strip of board twenty-four inches long and three inches wide, the top of which is covered with roller composition. The mailing-board is about three feet lon g and eighteen inches wide, on one side of which a strip two inches high is nailed, against which to fasten the gage-strip.

The manner of 4operating is very simple,

.After a galley is set with addresses it is inked and rocked over a stiff strip of cardboard two inches wide and twenty-four inches long. This operation prints the addresses on the gagestrip. This strip and galley are then numbered with a corresponding number, and always used in connection with each other. In mailing, the gage-strip is slipped into grooves on the side of the mailing-board, the papers to be addressed folded into quarters and placed ou the board, the top edge of each paper placed to a name on the gage-strip. This leaves about half an inch of `the top margin of each paper exposed. The galley corresponding in number with the gage-strip used is then taken and rocked over the inking-cushion, then placed on the papers and rocked forward over the papers, and the operation is inished. About six seconds is all the time required to ink a galley and address each ity papers.

` Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Let- An apparatus for addressing newspapers consisting of the rocking galley 'M and the mailing-board O, the former having handles N and a series of addresses set up with lines of type held therein at intervals, while the latter is provided with a suitable gage-strip, all as and for the `purpose specified.

JOHN BLOCHER.

Witnesses:

GEO. H. TAYLOR, HENRY I. LINCOLN. 

